Ellee Seymour

I’m not sure if this is what Rachel Joyce had in mind when she talked about localising the NHS on ConservativeHome today. 

Radical proposals for East Anglia could see up to 40% of outpatient hospital consultants visiting patients at home. And hospitals can share staff too.

This was announced by Neil McKay, who only four weeks ago took over as chief executive of the new East of England Strategic Health Authority, where local health trusts are desperately trying to claw back millions to make their books balance.

I wonder if there has been any consultation with consultants about this, how can it be cost effective for a consultant to travel around a rural region like East Anglia making home visits?

In theory, it sounds great to have your consultant call at your home, but nobody is going to believe that it is being done for the benefit of the patients.

Neil McKay sounds like a hatchet man to me. He is quoted as saying that balancing the books was the top priority, how hospitals have got to get rid of their debts. I thought the NHS’s priority was to provide a reliable health service, that the health needs of the public were paramount.

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You might try to fake your body language, but your handwriting won’t fool the experts. George Osborne must have been over the moon when during a heated debate, an angry George Brown hurled some papers across the Commons and they landed in his lap. Little did he know how revealing they would be.

A sheet with some scribbles was dispatched to Sarah Mooney, (pic) principal of the London College of Graphology, whose analysis of Brown’s 14 word note painted a less than flattering picture of our Chancellor, describing him as thus:

“The writer is not shy. The writer shows unreliable and poor judgment. The writer was not in control of their emotions and instincts at the time of writing.

“There are signs that the writer is someone who does not like to give a clear-cut image of himself. There are signs that the writer can be evasive.�

It is spot on.

Although I prefer our politicians to avoid using these personal attacks, I can understand how George Osborne found this irresistible. After all, you can’t disguise the way you dot your “i” and cross your “t”, your whole character is laid bare, your writing can reveal far more than you would wish in the hands of the right person.

If our Shadow Chancellor believes in graphology, shouldn’t we be asking our political candidates to have their writing analysed? Has your writing ever been analysed, how true do you think it would be? And why wouldn’t George Osborne give a sample of his own to The Times?

Here are some analyses which you may find of interest – Frank Sinatra, Jack the Ripper, Stalin and Himmler.

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